Dr Robyn Owen

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Finance

Robyn Owen
  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research

  • Location London

Research activities

Principal Investigator of Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) SME Nature Positive Finance (2022-26)

British Business Bank Evaluation of debt funds (with SQW research) (2024)

Academic partner for the London Councils' Green Economy Programme (2022-2024)

CUSP Research Fellow - undertaking SME green finance (2016 - ongoing)


Current Teaching

Key teaching contributions:

MSc PRS4580 PG Sustainable Prosperity

MSc FIN4320/PGN399 Financial Management

WGT3017 UG Entrepreneurship 

Supervise 3 PhD students

Supervise Masters dissertations


Biography

Robyn Owen is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Finance, Deputy Director of the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR) and Founding Director of Green Research Cluster.

Robyn is a full time researcher, leading grant projects for UKRI (e.g. NERC SME Nature Positive Finance) and undertaking contract research for Government Departments and agencies such as Department for Business and Trade, British Business Bank and Innovate UK.

Robyn specialises in green and sustainable finance for SMEs and all forms of early stage SME finance, undertaking scoping studies and evaluations of equity and debt programmes.   

External activities

  • External Reviewer for Evaluation of DESNZ Energy Entrepreneurs Fund, UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2020
  • Publications